Word: morale
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...against environmentally unsustainable activities is not a popular political program, or some effort to “raise consciousness,” but rather a heightened sense of personal and collective responsibility. In today’s society, where the cult of the individual has amassed countless votaries, every moral or virtue comes expressed in self-actualizing language: We talk ceaselessly about human rights and self-interest and our “hope” to “change” the world. But seldom do we pause to reflect upon our duties—both to ourselves...
...response to a recent questionnaire from a group of scientists, McCain said that “clear lines should be drawn that reflect a refusal to sacrifice moral values and ethical principles for the sake of scientific progress...
...gubernatorial debate, Palin said she could not support embryonic research on moral grounds...
...marriage of one of his new staff members and accidentally caused the death of his best friend’s girlfriend, for which he shows no remorse. This is, of course, all in a day’s work for House, but he’s lost his moral tension, and the show is left to rely on awkward side stories involving a goofy private eye and increasingly uninteresting patients.Another show in a similar state of stagnation is “Dexter,” Showtime’s series about a serial killer who lives a double life...
...have imprisoned his daughter as a sex slave in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, Austria has been locked in an emotional debate over what could cause such a crime. Some have claimed Fritzl's sadism to be a vestige of Nazism's moral corruption, others that the psychological strain of living for years under the threat of nuclear destruction was to blame...